Positioned as an AI-native consumer brands platform, with an initial focus on launching nutrition and wellness products. Brands will be built with an operating platform working across three proprietary AI engines. "Resonance" focuses on audience building and consumer insights; "Nucleus" analyzes audience demand signals around products; "Meridian" is focused on marketing, across creative testing, media buying, budget allocation and optimizing ROAS. The company is actively seeking experts/ practitioners in the wellness space who bring clinical experience and will partner with them to build their online content engine and audience, launch products with them, and drive sales. ₹42CR seed round. Founded in Apr 2025, Mumbai based. Founders: Kashyap (BIT, Mesra; IIM Calcutta) was CMO at Pepperfry for a decade, prior to which he was with eBay India for ~five years, including as CMO. Ravi (Andhra Univ. '03; BIM Tiruchirapalli '06) was Co-Founder at Doubtnut (2020-23) at CBO at Vedantu. Ravi is also ex eBay India (leading digital marketing, and fashion and lifestyle). Anubhav (VESIT; University of Maryland Baltimore County) was MD at Dentsu APAC, and was Co-Founder & CEO of Merkle Sokrati for 14 years, which was acquired by Dentsu. He is a former software engineer from Amazon.

AI-led credit infrastructure startup enabling financial institutions to launch asset-backed credit cards and credit lines. Asset backing is against FDs, mutual funds and equities. The company has partnered with seven banks including of India's largest public sector banks. The platform powers 200K active cards, with 40K new cards issued every month, now accounting for 8% of India's monthly credit card issuance. "“India does not have a shortage of assets. It has a shortage of infrastructure that can convert those assets into usable credit". $2.8M seed round led by Arkam, with participation from GrowthCap Ventures (which led the $1.8M pre-seed round in Jun 2025), Razorpay Ventures and Atrium Angels. Angels include Kunal Shah and Madhusudhan E. (KreditBee). Founded in Oct 2022, Bangalore based. Founders: Pawan Kumar. Founders: CEO Pawan (VTU '12) was former head of Applied Science at Uber India and was Data Science Manager at LinkedIn. CTO Srinivas (Army Institute of Technology ' 05; IIM Lucknow '13) was former Technical Lead at BNP Paribas, and is ex AMP (wealth management and banking in Australia) and Wipro.

AI-native coordination platform that maps organisational knowledge across tools like Slack, email, docs, meeting records, and code repositories like GitHub. The platform reduces dependence on individual employees for access to company information. Users can ask questions in natural language and receive responses which link to underlying sources. $525K pre-seed round at a $7.5M valuation. Founded in Dec 2025, Gurgaon based. The founders are students, Arhan, 18, is studying AI at U Penn and Sarthak, 19, is studying computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

AI data infrastructure startup which builds licensed, provenance-backed datasets for AI foundation models, embodied AI, robotics and autonomous systems. The company partners with content owners, production houses, studios, archives, institutions, and contributor networks to source, license, and structure real world data for AI training. Focused on India, SE Asia and other markets in the Global South. $500K pre-seed round led by Venture Catalysts' angel network. Founded in Jun 2025, Singapore based. Founders: Sunil, Sabari, Dushyant, Anil. Sunil (Savitribai Phule Pune University B.S. '93; Master's '96) was MD - APAC at Firework (shoppable video solutions for brands) and COO at ALTBalaji's OTT; Sabari (Coimbatore Institute of Technology '01; IISc '04) is a researcher on vision-language models at ANU in Canberra; Dushyant (D.U. '96; Welingkar Institute of Management '99) was Co-Founder at SmartViz (visual inspection automation); Amit (University of Tasmania '03; Haas School of Business '08) was Deputy Director Manufacturing of Wearable Health Solutions for Space Medicine at ANU.

Voice-first AI tutoring platform for school and competitive exam prep. Akin to a teacher with a whiteboard, the platform offers real-time audio conversations and a live interactive sketchpad, allowing the AI tutor to draw diagrams and work through problems while explaining concepts aloud. While this is K-12, this is particularly used by students in classes 9-12, who undertake board exam prep along with their prep for JEE, NEET and CUET. The platform works in 22 languages including Hindi and Hinglish, with AI avatar versions of real school teachers for partner institutions. 200K users till date, across app and web. $500K/₹4.3CR pre-seed round at a $5M valuation, co-led by DataAlpha.ai and White Swan Global. Founded in Jan 2025, Noida based. Founder & CEO Kirti (IIT BHU '07) was AVP and Head of CET at PhysicsWallah; prior to which he founded real-time doubt-solving platform, Puchoto (i.e., "just ask").

Intelligent commerce platform that provides AI powered conversational infrastructure for businesses to convert customer interactions into automated, measurable business operations. This works across industries - healthcare (e.g. patient bookings, rescheduling and reminders), retail (e.g. browsing catalogs and delivery confirmations), automotive, logistics and education. Building for India and Africa. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Feb 2026, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Hanumant (B.Tech '92 and MBA '97 from IIT Kharagpur) spent 13 years at Idea Cellular, was VP of Sales at Airtel Zambia, and then founded Mamastops (cashless fuel purchases) in Zambia (~three years). CPO Ritu Raj (Annamalai University '14; ML at Royal Holloway, University of London '18) was Co-Founder & Head of Product at Urban Vyapari and senior PM at Bots 'N Brains. VP of Engineering Yogesh (Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University) '26) has been a part time software dev at Zambia based Mount Meru Group while completing his undergrad.

AI-native shopping assistant for consumers to discover products, compare prices, and make purchase decisions across eCommerce platforms. Integrates with Amazon, Flipkart, and more than 5,000 brand websites. It has crossed 500K app installs, with 50,000 DAU and the facilitation of over ₹15CR in monthly transactions. Plans to serve global markets. ₹4.7CR round. Founded in Jul 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Hiren (Univ. of Mumbai '20) worked on enterprise growth at Plum (insurance), and spent three years as co-founder across ventures Leapflo (marketplace to connect verified manufacturers with D2C brands) and Tiepograph (marketplace for freelancers); CTO Ravi (Punjab Technical Univ. '19) was Co-Founder & CTO at Leapflo and was more recently an engineer at Fynd.

AI-native incident management software that investigates production issues. Enterprises can investigate and manage production incidents across cloud-native and microservices-based systems, with integration into over 30 enterprise tools. Customers in India include Fynd, Lokal, and TradeIndia. ₹7.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, SF based. Founders: Gaurav (dual degree from IIT Bombay '12) was CTO at Doubtnut (five years) and was Co-Founder & CTO at Aasaanjobs; Akshat (IIT Gandhinagar '19) was Search Infrastructure Lead and a backend dev at Doubtnut (five years).

AI-powered B2B tender marketplace, which helps businesses manage the entire procurement lifecycle digitally from floating tenders and onboarding verified vendors to receiving sealed competitive bids, executing digital contracts, and releasing escrow-backed payments. Businesses today continue to rely on phone calls, WhatsApp, spreadsheets, and personal vendor networks to source products and services. The platform has onboarded over 50 businesses and 200 verified suppliers so far, driving 10-15% in savings and up to 3x faster procurement cycles. ₹1.3CR pre-seed round. Founded in Apr 2026, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Rankit (D.B.S. College '22; Symbiosis '25) worked on Strategic Alliance & Partnerships at AyushPay (for over a year) and on BD at MediCtrl (also a little over a year); COO Sanyam (Narsee Monjee '23; Symbiosis '25) also worked at MediCtrl along with family business Arihant Offset; Anshul is a board member at BharatTender, founded ClaimTherapist (to ease the mediclaim process) in 2019, and was a Senior Director at Delhivery (2013-19).

Optical ground-station and laser communication infrastructure for satellite links, for 100x faster transfer between satellites and earth than radio frequency (RF). RF ground station operators charge $3-17 per GB, QOSMIC will be priced at $1 per GB. Moreover, RF requires spectrum licenses, whereas optical operates in an unregulated spectrum. $3.3M seed round, which was first announced in March 2026 albeit without the amount. The company is part of the Atoms X LeapTech cohort, with matching investments from Accel and Prosus. Founded in Oct 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Shreyaans (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign '23) started out as a researcher at IISc shortly before founding QOSMIC; CTO Rohit (Cochin University of Science and Technology '09; IISc PhD '23) completed his PhD in High Dimensional Quantum Information Technology (HD-QIT) and his postdoc before joining QOSMIC; Professor Aloke Kumar (IIT Kanpur '05; Purdue PhD '10) teaches at IISc.